Cornelia is a professional Genealogist who specializes in helping Americans trace their British ancestry. She is very active in the Scottish-American community and appeared in the award-winning film the Tartan Apple.

About Me

Sunday, December 9, 2012

While I realize that not all of us have been following this story, it has tremendous significance for a variety of reasons.

First, the fact is that there are living descendants of Neanderthals, demonstrating that the population is both not extinct and that there was apparently a breeding between humans and hominids.

Second, genome sequencing is taking us by leaps and bounds into uncharted scientific territory, where only speculation and philosophy had taken us before.

Third, considering where this might take us, in terms of the ever-increasing knowledge base in the filed of genetic research and mapping, we may soon have an answer to the question: is there a missing link, or were we created as we exist today?